Rats of Waterdeep is an adventure set in Waterdeep for first-level characters. Designed as part of the Guild Adept program by Lysa Chen and Will Doyle, it presents an investigative scenario sent in the poor quarter of Waterdeep, where a strange plague is turning people into rats! I love that the adventure’s resolution is open-ended. It sets the scene very well – the adventure’s background … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Rats of Waterdeep
Red Thrall is an adventure for level 1-5 characters, designed to be used in conjunction with Storm King’s Thunder. It provides additional adventure opportunities during the opening chapter, “A Great Upheaval”, and works best when integrated with that chapter, although the material could be adapted for use elsewhere without much trouble. One of the benefits of using this material is to provide additional XP – … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Red Thrall
My World of Greyhawk campaign has been interrupted of late by other matters, but we returned to it this week with a classic dungeon crawl. After the past two sessions of a city-based adventure, which had not gone as well as I’d wished, I felt it was time to return to a dungeon. Ah, but which dungeon? There are several megadungeons in my version of … Continue reading Greyhawk – Old Tomes and Killer Plants
Pools of Cerulean is the second adventure of the Tier 4 D&D Adventurers League adventures for the Tomb of Annihilation season. The adventurers are tasked with recovering a shard of the Soulmonger before a party of Red Wizards recover it first. If this seems like the plot in Streams of Crimson, you would be correct. It is the same plot. What differs is the location … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Pools of Cerulean
The Laughing Horde of Ruin is a campaign adventure that takes the adventurers on the road from the city of Raven’s Bluff to the city of Tsurlagol, a haven for pirates. Designed by James MacMurray, this is a 99-page adventure that takes characters from level 1 to level 5. The adventure begins in Raven’s Bluff, where the adventurers are asked to find the son of … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: The Laughing Horde of Ruin
In the Face of Fear is a two-hour adventure for level 1-4 characters written by Dave Zajac. It is the first part of the Tenets of Bane series and has been released as part of the D&D Adventurers League CCC programme. In it, the adventurers are sent to recover a relic of Bane, the god of Tyranny, which is hidden in the desolate wastelands of … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: In the Face of Fear
Our play of Storm King’s Thunder saw the adventurers choose to take on the cloud giants, at least partly because they had a lot of fire spells which would be ineffective against the fire giants, and they wanted a challenge. So, taking the airship, they flew to the Cloud Giant castle to find the object they needed to reach King Hekaton’s court. This is an … Continue reading Running Storm King’s Thunder: Castle of the Cloud Giants
After 20 three-hour sessions, we have finished Storm King’s Thunder. We started in February; we finished in the last week of June. It was an enjoyable experience. The final session consisted of the six adventurers accompanying five storm giants as they attacked the Ancient Blue Dragon responsible for the chaos in the Storm King’s demesne. The session could have been better. I should have excluded … Continue reading Ending Storm King’s Thunder
There’s a fantastic idea powering Streams of Crimson, the first of four Tier 4 adventures for Season 7 of the D&D Adventurers League. The characters must recover a shard of the Soulmonger before the yuan-ti and Red Wizards do so, but they’ve got to navigate a ruined city in both the real and the ethereal plane. Having the adventure take place on two planes, with … Continue reading 5E Adventure Review: Streams of Crimson
